Ballad Creole

Sundays, 10:00-11:00am

Ballade Creole is a program meant to educate and bridge the gap between Creole communities within the GTA and across southwest Ontario. The program aims also to enable people to understand the news affecting the Caribbean Creole population from an angle other than the main stream media of the west.

There are roughly 80.000 people in this geographic area that have roots in such places as Martinique, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Islands Mauritius and other Creole communities as well. The show is presented utilizing a balance of Creole and English.

Journalist Pierre Rigaus Charleus, host of the Ballade Creole (Creole Ballad),prior to graduating in Mass Communication at the State University of Haiti in 1994, has been already involved in Journalism at local radio stations such Radio Super Gemini and Dynamic FM in his Home Town Saint Marc, Haiti. Following His graduation, he worked at Magik Fm and the National Radio in Port au Prince, Haiti between 1998 through 2000. he moved to New Jersey in 2001 and worked as a volunteer at HSTV and Radio Verite. In 2008 He moved to Canada and joined Choq Fm to host Caraiboscopy, a radio talk show covering issues within the Caribbean Francophone.

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We are proud to announce that Phil Taylor has been awarded the 2018@VictoireUmuhoza Prize by the International Network for Peace and Democracy. The Taylor Report has reported on Umuhoza's political campaign for a representative democracy in Rwanda. ow.ly/mWWa30iZepIpic.twitter.com/u5cufjawLI

Today 10/03/18 RiFDP just awarded the Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Prize for Democracy and Peace 2018 to Charles Onana, a French & Camerounian investigative journalist, and to Phil Taylor, head of The Taylor Reports program of Canadian radio CIUT 89.5 FM. @rifdp@VictoireUmuhozapic.twitter.com/c8iLNFO9TA